Most people assume that diseases like diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, arthritis and cancer are results of genetic inheritance factors. The Human Genome Project is proving that genes are only a very small part of the story. More important than genetic inheritance in terms of your health or disease state as an adult, is the way you have treated your genes throughout your life. What you have eaten, inhaled, surrounded yourself with in your environment, endured as stresses, participated in as activities or suffered as injury, all of these factors alter the expression of your genes and contribute in a major way to your state of health or disease.

Stress is the only thing that produces disease. Stress is defined as any input into a human being which is detrimental, whether mental/emotional, physical, sensory or nutritional/chemical.

Stress is detrimental because when it is introduced to the body, the body must expend extra amounts of energy to keep the stress from causing injury or death. i.e., When the body is exposed to cold, it will rev up metabolism to maintain a body temperature which preserves life. This increased metabolism (shivering) costs extra energy.

The cold air, causing the increased metabolism, is therefore a stress which is stimulating the body. Thus the stress (cold air) is called a stimulant.

Stimulation is the speeding up of the metabolism in an effort to keep a stress from causing injury or death.

Types of stimulants creating stresses:

Mental/emotional stimulants: Fear, anxiety, hate, worry, grief....etc.
Sensory stimulants: Excess noise, bright lights, strong smells...etc.
Physical stimulants: Tobacco, skin ointments, cosmetics, soaps, lack of sleep....etc.
Nutritional stimulants: Partial & processed foods (i.e., white sugar, refined flour and refined oils). Foods in excess (overeating). Bad food combinations (meat and white potato). Toxic foods (i.e., dairy products, meats, margarine...etc.). Non-foods (i.e., salt, alcohol, regular and decaffeinated coffee and tea, diet drinks, drugs and medications, artificial sweetners, preservatives, food colorings, additives, vitamins and mineral supplements....etc.)

The energy and nutrients utilized by the body during stimulation do not come from the toxin being eliminated; rather the body must supply from its own reserves and tissues the energy and the nutrients needed for processing. This results in a depletion of "good health components" or eventually, disease. Real food is either void of all toxins or the toxic content is at such a low concentration that there is a net gain in energy and nutrients from the food even after eliminating the toxins from the body.

When the body is "revved up" (experiencing stimulation - i.e., drinking coffee) there results a false feeling of well being - we feel full of energy. This is due to the artificially induced, increased metabolism. The delusion is that because we feel good (stimulated), we do not realize we are doing any harm to the body by consuming or being exposed to stimulants.

Disease symptoms (pain, inflammation, depression, fever, hyperactivity, ....etc.) are the body's effort at eliminating or dealing with toxins and stimulants.

References:
Robbins, Joel. (1987). Eating for Health and Wellness.

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